Barney Koneferenisi - (Amputee And Entrepreneur)

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Barney Koneferenisi - (Amputee and Entrepreneur) | #78

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Rushed to hospital as a child Barney Koneferenisi's parents were told doctors had to immediately amputate his limbs to save his life, not even having time to have an anaesthetist put him under. "I left the room fully intact and when I came back I literally only had a stump and a couple of fingers".

After 100 different surgeries and a decade of being in and out of hospital he sat down with Dylan Alcott and Angus O'Loughlin to talk about life as a Pacific Island disabled person and the cultural implications of being made to feel a "burden or a curse" to his family, the hilarious call he received to become a Tokyo Paralympian and how being left on the side of the road was the inspiration behind his new Start Up 'Safe Rides'.

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